Limnophora latevittata Schnabl, 1911

Couri, Márcia & Pont, Adrian, 2020, Type specimens of Limnophorini (Diptera: Muscidae) deposited in the Museum für Naturkunde, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Berlin, Germany), Zoologia (e 46879) 37, pp. 1-57 : 10

Limnophora latevittata Schnabl, 1911

Lectotype.Male. Paralectotypes. 4males, 4 females (5 males,

5 females in Pont and Werner 2006, one pair could not be found). Lectotype of Limnophora variabilis Stein, 1916 , junior synonym of L. latevittata . Designated by Hennig (1959: 383). Germany.

Diagnosis. Length of body. 4.5–5.0 mm (male, female). Head. Frons brown, intermediate in male. Fronto-orbital plate, parafacial and gena grey pruinose. Antenna and arista dark brown; postpedicel with tip rounded. Palpus dark brown. Thorax. Scutum with 3 brown vittae fused postsuturally as far as level of third dorsocentral seta; postpronotum and notopleuron grey dusted. Scutellum dark brown. Dorsocentrals 2+4. Intraalars 1+2. Lower katepisternal closer to the posterior seta. Katepisternum with some extra setae. Haltere yellow. Calypters white. Legs. Fore tibia without a posterior seta. Mid femur with 2 preapical setae. Mid tibia with 1 median posterior seta. Hind tibia with 1 short and fine median anterodorsal and anteroventral setae; without posterodorsal. Arolium and pulvillus enlarged. Wing. Costal spine indistinct. Abdomen. Sternite 1 bare.

Remarks. This species can be identified with Hennig’s (1959) key to Limnophora (as L. variabilis ). The male terminalia were illustrated by Lyneborg (1965, figs 7–9, as L. variabilis ).